Doe Quotes

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

One does not always sing out of happiness.

If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

We will not conquer our obstacles by running away from them. Speed does not matter, just that we do not stop.

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

Today let us all ask ourselves whether we are afraid of what God might ask, or of what he does ask.... Do I truly let God into my life? How do I answer him?

And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by love?

It does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance.

The youth say stupid things and they say good things, as we do, as everyone does. But hear them, speak with them, because we must learn from them and they must learn from me, from us.

I have photo shoots or commercials that I do, or things in India. It's usually a seven-day week for me. So physically it does get exhausting.

And nobility will not be able to help you with your love; Love does not know how to cede to ancestral images.

There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.

Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.

To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but nothing's getting better.

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.

Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.

What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

Work helps. So does exercise. Stuff that numbs you, keeps you from thinking too much.

Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?

It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

Sometimes the hitter get a hit, sometimes I strike them out, but in niether case does anyone die.

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

Leadership isn't what a team says, but what it does.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.

The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.